there was a rule in the pentagon. donald rumsfeld, the secretary of defense, really prohibited anyone from even using the word "insurgency." because an insurgency would mean that you'd have to come up with a counterinsurgency strategy, and that would mean you'd have to stay there for a long time and get involved in nation building, which was a curse word to him. so -- and it wasn't just rumsfeld. the army, they had a code. what was a war? they defined war as a major conflict involving tanks on tanks. in the latest military manuals before petraeus became commander this kind of war, a counterinsurgency war, it was called a military operation other than war. it wasn't even called a war. it was mootwa. and general saakashvili, the joint chairman of the chief of staffs, said that a real man does not do mootwa. so trying to win over the hearts and minds of the people, in other words, to recognize that the insurgency actually had a cause and there was injustices against the reigning government and therefore to defeat the ins